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[MAP – GREAT LAKES REGION]. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier (1723–1786). Partie De l’Amerique Septent? qui comprend La Nouvelle France ou Le Canada. Paris, 1755.
Hand–colored engraved map (image, 495 x 616 mm) of eastern Canada with a large inset view of the Great Lakes interior (“Supplement pour les Lacs du Canada”) showing the four imaginary lake islands within Lake Superior named for various patrons to expeditions into remote Canada; decorative cartouche with a beaver who may have eaten a portion of the wooden boat. Framed and matted (not examined out of frame).
FIRST EDITION, second state, naming “I Charlton” in James Bay. Karpinsky, Bibliography of Printed Maps of Michigan, p. 142; Kershaw 355.